1842] TESTIMONIAL TO STEVENS. 153 



may hereafter determine. Tliat Messrs. George ISniith, 

 li. B. Beach, W. Stanley, l{. Coates, and Samuel Merry be 

 appointed a committee, with power to add to their number." 

 The following were added to their number: Mr. Trench, 

 Mr. H. Horley, Mr. Cowper, Mr. F. Eobbins, jun., Mr. 

 Thomas Taylor. Then follows a list of 135 subscribers, 

 nearly all farmers and tradesmen, showing how popular 

 Stevens was with them, none of the sums exceeding 

 one guinea. AVe notice amongst them the Leamiuf/fon 

 Sjja Co/frier. The late Mr. Daniel Sarjeant, with ^Ir. 

 J. Eose, and Mr. Edward Knott, who are still hunting 

 with the Warwickshire hounds, were subscribers to the 

 fund. 



The amount subscribed, 79/. O-y. Or/., was thus disposed 

 of: 



Stevens' Silver Cup ... 



,, Cash 

 Morris (1st whip) ... 

 Hicks (2nd whip) ... 

 Liike (feeder) 

 Purses and postage... 

 Dinner at presentation 

 Cash to Stevens to treat tiie men 



The latter item of (5/. 12*. iid. was divided amongst 

 twelve kennel men, the last entry being noticeable — kennel 

 boy, Bobert WoiTall, lO-y. This must be Eobert Worrall, 

 late huntsman to the (Jld i^erkeley and the Vale of White 

 Horse, who before that carried the horn under Squire Lucy, 

 and to whom we shall allude in another place. We have 

 been fav(jured with a sight of the cup, which is a double- 

 handed silver tankard with a fox on the lid. It is now in 

 the possession of Stevens' daughter, who man-ied, as her 

 second husband, Mr. Middleton, of Tysoe and Kirby Farm, 

 and who now resides at Oxhill, not far from the far- 

 famed Oxhill (lorse. Bound the cup are embossed repre- 

 sentations of hounds in full cry, with two mounted figures. 



